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My Feed https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/ello.xml It's just a feed for now Sat, 31 May 2025 23:48:27 GMT feedland v0.6.43 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Sat, 31 May 2025 23:48:26 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Sat, May 31, 2025 7:48 PM EDT <p>Author Harriet Constable, on Vivaldi: "Scholars agree, that without the Pietá and the Figlie Di Coro, a breeding ground of talent to test ideas, his music would not exist today."</p> <p>"We have a collection of disabled and disfigured female orphans to thank for the most famous piece of classical music on Earth: "The Four Seasons." Excerpt from Author's Note, "The Instrumentalist" (2024) by Harriet Constable.</p> Sat, 31 May 2025 23:48:27 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=789333 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=789333 Author Harriet Constable, on Vivaldi: "Scholars agree, that without the Pietá and the Figlie Di Coro, a breeding ground of talent to test ideas, his music would not exist today." "We have a collection of disabled and disfigured female orphans to thank for the most famous piece of classical music on Earth: "The Four Seasons." Excerpt from Author's Note, "The Instrumentalist" (2024) by Harriet Constable. <p>The only biography of Maria Bach (1896-1978) with any real detail is in the book "Five Lives in Music," by Cecelia Porter. Personally, I love Maria Bach's music (I'm CRAZY about some of it) but upon reading the following, one has to wonder why Porter chose to write about her!</p> <p>"She continued to compose, but in the same stylistic vein to which she had long adhered: romanticizing a contrived folklike simplicity, indulging in subjective anthropomorphic depictions of nature; resorting to imagined non-western melody, harmony, and rhythm; and clinging to impressionistic tendencies from decades long past." Ouch! Tell us what you really think!</p> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:38:43 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788670 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788670 The only biography of Maria Bach (1896-1978) with any real detail is in the book "Five Lives in Music," by Cecelia Porter. Personally, I love Maria Bach's music (I'm CRAZY about some of it) but upon reading the following, one has to wonder why Porter chose to write about her! "She continued to compose, but in the same stylistic vein to which she had long adhered: romanticizing a contrived folklike simplicity, indulging in subjective anthropomorphic depictions of nature; resorting to imagined non-western melody, harmony, and rhythm; and clinging to impressionistic tendencies from decades long past." Ouch! Tell us what you really think! <p>Cecelia Hopkins Porter: "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving.</p> <p>But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments.</p> <p>They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past, combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments.</p> <p>This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter, <em>"Five Lives in Music. "</em></p> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:17:51 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788124 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788124 Cecelia Hopkins Porter: "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving. But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments. They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past, combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments. This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter, _"Five Lives in Music. "_ <p>"Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving.</p> <p>But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments.</p> <p>They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments.</p> <p>This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter</p> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:09:50 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788123 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788123 "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving. But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments. They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments. This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter <p>"Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving.</p> <p>But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments.</p> <p>They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments.</p> <p>This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter</p> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:04:53 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788122 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788122 "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving. But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments. They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments. This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter <p>"Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving.</p> <p>But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments.</p> <p>They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments.</p> <p>This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter</p> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:02:35 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788121 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788121 "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving. But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments. They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments. This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter <p>"Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving.</p> <p>But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments.</p> <p>They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments.</p> <p>This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter</p> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:01:46 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788120 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788120 "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving. But, on the whole, only a relatively small number of commendable women in music, especially in composing, have won any substantial notice of their accomplishments. They have worked unaware of, & therefore uninspired by, their female precursors' achievements, most of which have gone unrecorded in major, comprehensive historical annals. The resulting absence of role models from the past combined with a lack of any significant public exposure, such as that offered by large concert halls, has left potential women musical performers & composers – generation after generation – unaware of their female forebears' accomplishments. This "cultural amnesia" regarding the past…has also left the musically minded general public – both concert audiences & readers – equally uninformed & thus confined to a warped concept of the past." - Cecelia Hopkins Porter